Nicholas Hytner looks forward to a future away from the National Theatre and back at ten years of artistic success

Cards on the table: I like Nicholas Hytner. I admire the variety, risk and
range of his decade as artistic director at the National Theatre:

NT Live in cinemas, sponsored cheap tickets, the new audiences (20 per cent
each year are newcomers, many of them to any kind of theatre). I enjoy his
press conferences, especially when he bats off tedious questions about
government ministers attending shows with “Why should they?” Fair point:
very human, very Hytner. You can fund the arts out of principle without
giving up your evenings.